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The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.
Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
